Word: spun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Blaustein-Baroda; M-G-M). It was a dark and stormy night. The Sea Witch, a salvager out of Southampton, was riding out the Channel gale as a tight ship should. Suddenly, out of the night, a vast shape reared above the tiny vessel. With a gasp the helmsman spun the wheel. A wall of water smashed the Sea Witch broadside, hurling her clear of a big freighter, which "slid by like a cliff." Looking up, the skipper (Charlton Heston) saw no lights on the freighter, no sign of life on the bridge. On the stern he read the rusty...
...riding" or "hyping" songs published and recorded by his firms on the Bandstand program. Although Bandstand played some of Clark's own tunes that became hits (Tallahassie Lassie, Okefenokee), he and Mammarella insist that they were played only because they were popular already. But Clark has also spun his Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, which is just now beginning to climb into the big time. Clark insists that he has never taken payola in any form, and many support him, including ABC. Says a Philadelphia record distributor: "Dick is a living doll. I've offered him pieces...
...looking like an aging water boy strode up and down before the Syracuse bench. He wore a dark blue school shirt and a baseball cap pulled low over his close-cropped grey hair, and he barely came to some of the players' shoulders. But when he spoke, they spun to listen, and for good reason. Bantam-sized (5 ft. 8 in., 160 lbs.) Coach Floyd Burdette ("Ben") Schwartzwalder, 50, is the one man who has changed Syracuse from a perpetual Eastern patsy into a powerhouse that leads the nation in offense (36.4 points, 441.8 yds. per game) and defense...
...particles of cosmic rays (knowledge that is crucial to manned space flight), study the transfer of heat from tropics to polar regions and from the earth back into space (which is basic to weather forecasting), and carry out other experiments. The satellite is shaped like a gyroscope and is spun to keep it whirling cleanly instead of tumbling. It squeals like a bagpipe as it signals from two transmitters-one powered by a chemical battery, the other solar-powered and possibly could transmit for the expected life of the satellite-20 years. But, through a unique timing device, the radio...
...paid by G.M. (1958 total: $116 million). By forcing Du Pont to sell 2,000,000 G.M. shares yearly, it would also flood the market with G.M. stock, depress the price of G.M. More important to LaBuy was a ruling by the Internal Revenue Service that any G.M. shares spun off to Du Pont stockholders would be taxed at the full market value as ordinary income...